[tz] Are these valid timezone definitions?

[Ian Abbott]

On 2012-06-14 17:06, Tadashi Abe wrote:
> Now I'm testing DST start/end by setting the actual system clock
> as same as the above method and get the same issue.
>
> 1. export TZ="NZST-12:00:00NZDT-13:00:00,M10.1.0,M3.3.0"
> 2. set system clock just 5 seconds prior to DST [start|end]
> 3. 5 seconds later, check if switch between DST and STD occurs, but not.
>
> As the comment from Zefram, it works when I check date with -d option.
>
> http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-June/018059.html

To avoid ambiguity, show the exact commands you used and the output 
produced.

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